Foreword: 'I Keep My Treasure in My Arse' by Tim Dean
Introduction by Massimo Prearo
Translator’s Preface by Evan Calder Williams
Preface
1. Homosexual Desire is Universal
2. Fire and Brimstone, or How Homosexuals Became Gay
3. Heterosexual Men, or Rather Closet Queens
4. Crime and Punishment
5. A Healthy Mind in a Perverse Body
6. Towards a Gay Communism
7. The End
Appendix A: Unpublished Preface to Homosexuality and Liberation by
Mario Mieli (1980)
Appendix B: Translator’s additional note from Chapter 1
Index
Mario Mieli was a leading figure in the Italian gay movement of the 1970s, respected as one of the movement's most profound intellectuals. He committed suicide in 1983 at the age of 30. His work Towards a Gay Communism (Pluto, 2018) was considered a controversial classic of the era.
'An indispensable, pioneering example of the long, difficult effort
to articulate queer struggle with anti-capitalist struggle'
*Kevin Floyd, author of The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer
Marxism (University of Minnesota Press, 2009)*
'Mieli was considerably ahead of his time... Towards a Gay
Communism belongs to a visionary tradition of ecstatic
utopianism... A fascinating document of its departed moment, but
also as renewable inspiration for our contemporary desire to
envision a future that is foreign to today'
*Tim Dean*
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